The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-13


and half per cent for the next five and
four per cent. thereafter and 5000, ,O00 in
common stock.
HAZZAN d. WHEEL, assignee Of Martin
Kalbheisch & Sons, of New York, filed the
schedules of the firm short time ago in the
Court Of Common Pleas. They show habil-
tiles of s67S, ,116, with contingent liabilities
of S97, ,4S3, or total of s775.6OO with nominal
assets amounting TO S37S, ,S95.
| ARMOUR & Co., the well known packers
of Chicago and Kansas City, through their
agent at Washington were recently awarded
the contract for furnishing 137, 600 pounds
of bacon at the Pawnee Indian Agency at
81 cents per pound.
SEvENTY-FIvE glass manufacturers, rep
resenting all sections of the country, met
in Pittsburgh, Pa, short time ago and
formed the American Association of Flint
and Lime Glass Manufacturers. There was
| no discussion of prices or wages.
THE gate keepers of the military prison
at Madrid, Spain, recently decamped with
some fugitive sergeants, of whom there
were nine. No trace of them can be found.
| The escape caused a sensation, giving evil
dence of intrigues by the revolutionary
party.
TELEGRAMs of a recent date from Mendoza,
Argentine Republic, said that there were
four cases of cholera in the city and nine
teen in the hospital The hospital patients
are persons from the country. The cpl
demic continued to decline.
ANOTHER strike was recently threatened
on the lines Of the Brooklyn City and the
Broadway street railway lines, owing to the
position taken by Presidents Lewis and
Beers in the matter of time tables.
THE wages question at the Edgar Thomp-
son steel works at Pittsburgh, Pa, has
been finally settled by the arbitration COM
mittee, and work will be resumed in all de-
partments. The new scale advances wages
on general average ten per cent. These
works employ over 1900 men.
THE Government expected to begin pre-
liminary proceedings against the Bell Tele-
phone Company in Boston in a short time.
A WASHINGTON special lately said that
the names of Congressman holding ''calls"
on Union Pacific would soon be published,
and there was much alarm in certain cir
cles. 1t was rumored that over 81, 100000
can be traced to members as having been
paid by the railroad to secure the passage
Of the Funding bill. One Congressman is
said to have received $3.50, 900.
IN the criminal court at st. Louis on the
7th, counsel for Fotheringham applied for
a reduction of his clients bail. He was in
dicted on two charges, and the court fixed
the bail in each case at $500. The original
amount was 10000, $4,000 in eacn case.
A RECENT dispatch SAID that an epidemic
of smallpox was feared in Brooklyn and
that a vigorous course of action was being
applied.
A CONSTRUCTION train on on the Alabama
& Gsscat Southern railroad, near Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, recently struck COW, left
the rails, went down an embankment and
was wrecked, the engineer and fireman be-
ing killed.
A RECENT Ottawa, Ont, special said that
several important cases of smuggling were
being settled by the Minister of Customs.
They involved several New York and Chi
cago houses.
A PECULIAR case was begun in the Su-
perior Court at Boston on the 7th, being the
suit of Maurice S. Fitzgerald, a Catholic
clergyman, against Archbishop Williams,
to recover damages for being, as he claims,
wrongfully deposed from his )sition. The
Archbishop, upon charges of immortality,
ordered him into seclusiOn and meditation.
He declined to obey and was suspended.
1T wa ficially stated a short time ago
UnaU iU0 persons were burned 10 uedtn IN
the incendiary fire which destroyed the re-
served enclosure in the Peoples Park at
Madras, India.
THE lunacy proceedings instituted by
Prof. Emmons against Weltha A. EN-
mons, his wife, were continued in the old
circuit court room at Washington on the
9TH. There was such pressure for admit
tance that the deputy marshal was obliged
to close the door and refused entrance to
all who wer e not in some way connected
with the case.
WILLIAM EARL, proprietor of the largest
cider mills in New Jersey, committed sui
eide recently at his place near Newark, by
hanging himself.
THE annual banquet of the Jackson Club,
in celebration of the birthday of Andrew
jackson, was held at Columbus, O., on the
night of the 1th. Judge Thurman, Con-
gressman Lawler and other leading Demo
Gratis made speeches.
IT was reported short time ago that the
police of New York were going to dig
trench six feet deep, twelve feet wide and
fifty feet long in search of woman who
was supposed to have been murdered by
her husband.